Senior Social Work Practitioner - Lifelong Services
This exciting opportunity is for a lead professional, who will be responsible for delivering a statutory social work service to people who access or need the service to include assessment, planning, reviewing and leading on complex safeguarding enquiries. This includes being responsible for leading on a specialist area of service delivery, ensuring that key developments are communicated to colleagues and that business change is successfully implemented. We are looking for a candidate who will be able to support and deputise for the Team Manager in terms of day-to-day management, team development and moving effectively into the future. A key part of this role is providing supervision to team members and supporting them in their development and contribution to the team goals. It also includes providing management oversight for the duty function, and taking a lead on managing the allocation of both new incoming work and planned reviews. You will hold a small caseload where you will work collaboratively with individuals and family or friend carers to identify people’s strengths, networks and community assets. You will remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation and adhere to organisational procedures, policies and codes of conduct as well as Social Work England professional standards.
To be qualified for this role you are expected to be working at Senior Social Work level or higher; have relevant, advanced theoretical Social Work concepts and practices; detailed organisational knowledge relating to the provision of a professional Social Work service dealing with very complex health, social care and safeguarding issues. Please note the key aspects of the role are:
- Providing support to the manager in the running of the team
- Supervision of staff
- Managing a busy duty desk
- Managing a small complex caseload (5-8 cases)
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